I was thinking the same thing. They used the other people, and when they were done they killed them off, took their souls, and used their souls to get us.
[He wasn't expecting it to be this easy to venture theories and talk ideas. (Ominous implications up the yin yang that he wasn't the only one who'd gone there already, sure, but at the same time validating.)]
Of course. [It was the polite way of saying, "No shit I do."] It would be weird if I jumped to that kind of conclusion without encountering something like that before.
[He's not familiar with the term, but he gets the meaning, more or less.]
It would make sense-- it would explain why this town was abandoned suddenly, what happened to the original inhabitants. But why are we here? What do they hope to gain?
Finishing whatever they started? The little lady- Clarke? Found a sign with the bodies that talked about reclaiming some land. They didn't do the job, so they killed them off and got some people who could...maybe.
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I was thinking the same thing. They used the other people, and when they were done they killed them off, took their souls, and used their souls to get us.
[He wasn't expecting it to be this easy to venture theories and talk ideas. (Ominous implications up the yin yang that he wasn't the only one who'd gone there already, sure, but at the same time validating.)]
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Do you have something similar in your own world?
It's a possibility, but it's rather specific.
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I could tell you more about the specifics of it, but it sounds like we're basically on the same page here.
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...this should be harder. More complex. This shouldn't just be so...casual.]
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[He's not familiar with the term, but he gets the meaning, more or less.]
It would make sense-- it would explain why this town was abandoned suddenly, what happened to the original inhabitants. But why are we here? What do they hope to gain?
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